Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway

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Join Broadway historian, director, and all around MT nerd Robert W. Schneider for a wild and exhaustively researched celebration of the musicals that had set their sights on Broadway but missed the mark. The third season of Broadway Bound is called "I'M THE GREATEST STAR" explores twelve Broadway Bound musicals that were starred major performers. From a Bea Arthur to Randy Quaid, Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came To Broadway is sure to open your eyes to some of the most bizarre, brilliant, and bold musicals that tried to get themselves on the Great Bright Way!

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    BEA ARTHUR in A Mother's Kisses

    Bea Arthur spent her career playing women who could level a grown man with a single look. So naturally she starred in A Mother's Kisses, a musical about a stage mother so terrifying she makes Mama Rose look like Maria Von Trapp. This week, we explore the show that seemed perfectly suited to Bea's talents and ask a simple question: can a star be too right for a role? Along the way, we'll uncover a musical that wasn't really about Broadway at all—it was about what happens when nobody in the room is willing to blink first. If you like what we are doing DONATE HERE Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that qualify as fair use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 3m

  2. Season 3 Trailer

    SEASON THREE Teaser: I'm The Greatest Star

    Season 3 is almost here! This season on Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway, we're turning the spotlight on the stars who thought Broadway would be their next triumph... and discovered it had other plans. Join Robert W. Schneider as he explores the stories behind Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Bea Arthur, Jerry Lewis, Ginger Rogers, Anthony Newley, Barbara Cook, Robert Preston, Gene Barry, Randy Quaid, and the Broadway-bound musicals that never quite made it. It's a season about ambition, celebrity, ego, reinvention, and the glorious chaos that happens when legends collide with live theater. Season 3, I'm the Greatest Star, premieres July 2, 2026. Subscribe now so you don't miss a single flop. If you like what we are doing DONATE HERE Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that qualify as fair use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    4 min
  3. Bounce (2003)

    07/22/2025

    Bounce (2003)

    60 Songs 50 Years 9 Leads 5 Directors 4 Scripts 1 Sondheim We close our second season with the story of Stephen Sondheim's half century quest to bring musical life to the true story of 1920s schemers Addison and Wilson Mizner. Whether you knew it as A Sentimental Guy, Wise Guys, Gold, Get Rich Quick, Bounce, or Road Show, this episode will give you a glimpse into never before heard communication between some of Broadway's most prolific minds as they all work to bring Sondheim's dream to fruition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 30m
  4. Pleasures and Palaces (1965)

    07/08/2025

    Pleasures and Palaces (1965)

    If I said to you I have a score by Guys and Dolls’ Frank Loesser, book by Kiss Me Kate’s Sam Spewack, directed by the one and only Bob Fosse, and starring television personality Phyllis Newman, you’d probably ask where could you invest because this is gonna be bigger than talking pictures! But, it wasn’t? Why? Why did all of these wonderful people struggle with making Russian expansion funny and musical? Well…..why is Frank Loesser’s Pleasures and Palaces even worth talking about? What if I told you it was the show that created the Fosse dancer. See what happened was…..well, you will need to listen to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 16m
  5. Up From Paradise (1983)

    06/24/2025

    Up From Paradise (1983)

    I never miss an Arthur Miller musical! Yes, you read that correctly. Arthur Miller, the voice of gritty American realism, whose plays confronted capitalism, communism, and catastrophe one day woke up and decided to be the next Jerry Herman. You see what happened was.... Well, you will need to listen to our episode about UP FROM PARADISE to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 25m
  6. All About Us (1999)

    06/11/2025

    All About Us (1999)

    What do Leonard Bernstein, James Joyce, woolly mammoths, Bebe Neuwirth, the ice age, and Mario Cantone all have in common? They all tried to succeed by the skin of their teeth in John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joseph Stein's musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's meta-theatrical experience titled The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, Over and Over, All About Us..... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 16m
  7. Grover's Corners (1987)

    05/27/2025

    Grover's Corners (1987)

    In 1960, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt created theater history when their whimsical musical, The Fantasticks, the little show that no one believed in, opened and would not close until forty years later. Twenty-seven years later they would say “Smart New York money says we're not what's happening at the moment. We are perceived as the past. The perspective of us needs to be altered,” and so they plunged head first into musicalizing the play that had inspired them to create theater in the first place, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. But why, almost forty years later, no one will ever get to hear it? See what happened was…..well, guess you will need to find out for yourself when we explore how the geniuses behind The Fantasticks struggled against the tides of British imports to bring musical life to Grover’s Corners, with a cast of characters ranging from Gene Kelly to Angela Lansbury to Peter Pan herself, Mary Martin.   If you like what we are doing DONATE HERE Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that qualify as fair use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 1m
  8. Bonanza Bound (1947)

    05/13/2025

    Bonanza Bound (1947)

    It might end up being one the longest partnerships in the history of the American Musical. Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the lyricists of On the Town, Wonderful Town, Bells Are Ringing, Do Re Mi, Applause, On the 20th Century, the screenplay writers of Singing in the Rain, and the duo that gave the world phrases like “New York, New York, it’s a helluva town!” “Never Never land!” “Make Someone Happy” “The Party’s Over” and so many others. But, all of that amazing work might not have happened if they had brought their gold rush musical, Bonanza Bound, onto Broadway when they were first starting out! Grab your sleds and huskies because there is gold in them that hills….and by hills I mean Philadelphia where we will look at 1947’s Bonanza Bound! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 6m
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Join Broadway historian, director, and all around MT nerd Robert W. Schneider for a wild and exhaustively researched celebration of the musicals that had set their sights on Broadway but missed the mark. The third season of Broadway Bound is called "I'M THE GREATEST STAR" explores twelve Broadway Bound musicals that were starred major performers. From a Bea Arthur to Randy Quaid, Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came To Broadway is sure to open your eyes to some of the most bizarre, brilliant, and bold musicals that tried to get themselves on the Great Bright Way!

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